NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the ...

NASA’s supersonic X-59 aircraft has taken another critical step toward flight, as its engine was powered up successfully on ...

Starting on Oct. 30, engineers with NASA's X-59 Quesst program (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) have been conducting test runs of the jet's engines at the storied Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility in ...

But NASA wants to show that faster-than-sound travel is possible without the annoyance of the boom, which is where its X-59 ...

Vid The aircraft NASA hopes will usher in a new generation of transport that's supersonic but also relatively quiet has fired ...

X-59’s engine started for testing for the first time. NASA’s Quesst (“Quiet SuperSonic Technology”) mission recently achieved ...

American space agency NASA and defence specialists Lockheed Martin have started testing the jet engine that powers the X-59 ...

NASA's revolutionary X-59 jet is steadily progressing towards its first flight test. Starting on Oct. 30, engineers with NASA's X-59 Quesst program (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) have been ...

seemed to be working.” Though the X-59 is a research project, not an attempt to build a commercial aircraft, NASA’s aim is to create quiet supersonic technologies that could eventually be ...

Nov. 6 (UPI) --NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the aircraft can reduce sonic booms and make supersonic flight over ...